Abstract
DNA markers from the short arm of chromosome 5 were used to examine a large family in which a microscopically undetectable translocation was segregating. In addition to confirming that three retarded children were hemizygous for loci distal to 5p14, these analyses identified five individuals as being carriers of the balanced translocation. The use of molecular probes provided informed genetic counseling to the family for the first time. With the DNA markers from 5p, prenatal diagnosis was performed on two fetal chorionic villus samples, both of which were found to have unbalanced karyotypes. The identification of translocation carriers was complicated by recombination between the small translocated segment of 5p and the corresponding region on the normal homologue, which changed the haplotype of the translocated 5p segment.
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